GUEST ARTIST - Effie Pryer at Flinders Lane Art Gallery.
Effie Pryer is a Tasmanian artist living in Hobart, working primarily as a portrait and figurative painter in oils. Her experience as a painting’s conservator informs her traditional approach to painting, using Tasmanian timber panels as an integral part of the image. With an interest in the continuity of human narratives in art - reflecting familiar woes and desires across millennia - these paintings often
contrast grandiose classical imagery with modern banality, finding humor in humanity’s exaggerated yet inconsequential self-importance. Effie has been a finalist in several national portrait and figurative painting prizes and completed commissions for Parliament of Tasmania and the University of Tasmania (UTAS).
Artist Statement
I have an unfortunate habit of casting myself as the tragic lead in the minor dramas of modern convenience. In pursuit of perspective, my recent work leans into this absurdity - the way comfort and privilege can turn lost keys into an existential narrative - by granting scenes of self-martyrdom the undeserved solemnity of religious icon painting.
